Having a hard time sticking to your New Years resolution to eat healthier? Watch this clip of a live mouse caught running laps inside a bag of hamburger buns at a Philadelphia McDonalds. If it doesnt make you want to avoid fast food, I dont know what will. All together nowEewwww!
Jan. 6, 2012 — A substance known as the main ingredient of a classic candy may actually be good for your teeth: licorice.
According to a new study in the Journal of Natural Products, licorice root may help keep teeth healthy.
The authors report that compounds found in the dried root of the licorice plant may help prevent and treat tooth decay and gum disease.
But don’t rush to the candy aisle. According to information accompanying the study, what’s sold as licorice candy in the U.S.
In 1994 I was thrilled to become certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. I had worked very hard. I studied and read, I practiced oral board scenarios and even took an oral board preparatory course. It was, I believed, the pinnacle of my medical education. Indeed, if you counted the ACT, the MCAT, the three part board exams along the way and the in-service exams, it was my ultimate test. The one that I had been striving for throughout my higher education experience.
I am now disappointed to find that my certification was inadequate. In fact, all of us who worked so hard for our ABEM certification find ourselves facing ever more stringent rules to maintain that status. And it isn’t only emergency medicine. A
How would you like to stay 20 forever?
It’s a prospect that’s far from being a reality at the moment. But scientists have turned old lab mice young again using stem cells from young animals — a feat that raises the possibility of one day “rescuing” humans from aging with a shot of their own stem cells banked when they were younger.
The mice, who were manipulated to have progeria syndrome — a condition of accelerated aging — grew twice as big and lived two to three times longer when injected with cells from the younger mice.
Missing in the progeria mice is the capacity to get rid of spontaneous DNA damage. As a c
